http://jta.org/news/ en rcsillag@jta.org Copyright 2009 2009-11-20T16:30:00-05:00 http://jta.org/news/article/2009/07/06/1006350/opinion-israel-as-jewish-state-epstein http://jta.org/site/opinion-israel-as-jewish-state-epstein/#When:19:32:00Z Lawrence J. Epstein asks whether Israel can retain its identity as both a democracy and a Jewish state: In 1896 Theodor Herzl published Der Judenstaat, his national plan for the Jewish people. The pamphlet has often been mistranslated as The Jewish State. The word “Juden” was used by those who hated and persecuted Jews. Herzl’s point in calling the pamphlet The Jews’ State was to hurl back the epithet by asserting that those very Jews were proud and able enough to form their own nation... Readers Report, Sub Headline 2009-07-06T19:32:00-05:00